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No One Told Us

Episode 27: Understanding your Fertility with Lisa Hendrickson-Jack

No One Told Us

Rachael Shepard-Ohta

Society & Culture, Kids & Family, Parenting

4.9590 Ratings

🗓️ 22 February 2024

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Episode 27: Understanding Your Fertility with Lisa Hendrickson-Jack @fertilityfriday Knowledge is power, especially when it comes to your body, your period, and your fertility. This week, Rachael and Lisa Hendrickson-Jack, fertility educator and author of a new book,  Real Food For Fertility, chat all about fertility awareness, birth control, using your cycle as your fifth “vital sign”, and how to know if your period is “normal.”  In this empowering episode, you’ll find out what a normal, healthy menstrual cycle looks like, if hormonal contraceptives impact fertility, and what is the pill actually doing in the body. They also discuss fertility awareness, how it can help improve a woman's chances of conceiving for the first time or after already giving birth, plus lots more valuable information! Lisa Hendrickson-Jack is a certified Fertility Awareness Educator and Holistic Reproductive Health Practitioner who teaches women to chart their menstrual cycles for natural birth control, conception, and monitoring overall health. She is the author of three bestselling books The Fifth Vital Sign, the Fertility Awareness Mastery Charting Workbook, and her most recent book Real Food For Fertility, which she co-authored with Lily Nichols RDN. Lisa works tirelessly to debunk the myth that regular ovulation is only important when you want children by recognizing the menstrual cycle as a vital sign. Drawing heavily from the current scientific literature, Lisa presents an evidence-based approach to help women connect to their fifth vital sign by uncovering the connection between the menstrual cycle, fertility, and overall health. With well over 4 million downloads, her podcast, Fertility Friday, is the #1 source for information about fertility awareness and menstrual cycle health. Mentioned in this episode: Lisa’s website, Fertility Friday: fertilityfriday.com NEW BOOK! Real Food For Fertility: realfoodforfertility.com Lisa's book, The Fifth Vital Sign: thefifthvitalsignbook.com Lisa’s Instagram: @FertilityFriday Fertility Friday Podcast Rachael is a mom of 3, founder of Hey, Sleepy Baby, and the host of this podcast. Instagram (Show page) Tiktok (Rachael's tiktok account) Show Website (transcripts are available here!) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Welcome back to the No Un Told Us podcast. I'm your host, Rachel, and today I'm speaking with Lisa Hendrickson, Jack, a certified fertility awareness educator and a holistic reproductive health practitioner who teaches women to chart their menstrual cycles for natural birth control, conception, and monitoring overall health. She's the author of three best-selling books

1:12.8

and has a new book coming out soon that we're going to be chatting about at the end of the podcast

1:17.4

today. Lisa works tirelessly to debunk the myth that regular ovulation is only important when you

1:22.8

want children. And she draws heavily on the current scientific literature to provide an evidence-based approach to

1:29.2

helping women connect to that fifth vital sign by uncovering the connection between

1:33.3

menstrual cycle, fertility, and overall health. Her podcast, Fertility Friday, is the number one

1:38.4

source for information about fertility awareness and menstrual cycle health. And I'm so excited to chat

1:43.3

with you today, Lisa. Thank you so much for being on the podcast. Thank you so much for having me. I'm excited to be here.

1:49.3

So the first thing that I'd love to talk about just because I know that we'll probably keep

1:53.7

using this phrase is you say that your cycle is the fifth vital sign. So what are our vital

1:59.4

signs and why should we consider the menstrual

2:01.6

cycle to be one of our vital signs? Yes, absolutely. I mean, vital sign is simply a measure

2:07.7

of how the body is functioning. And some of the most common vital signs that we're more familiar

2:12.8

with would be things like our body temperature or our blood pressure or heart rate or our respiratory

2:18.4

rate, like how many breasts we take per minute. And when you think of any of those common vital

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